Windows 8: Great OS or Greatest OS?

[Xiahou]

gnome-shell is an effort to do the same thing - essentially it's a smartphone/tablet GUI.

Oh definitely! And I hate it as well.

Eh, that wasn't true in the circles I traveled back in the day. Most of us were on Windows 2000, and the general verdict was, "It's Win2k with better drivers." Which, in fact, it turned out to be.

Yeah. I remember lots of complaining about the candy-like XP theme, but once that was disabled everyone pretty much liked it.

Most people seemed to really like Win98SE, hate WindowsMe, like WindowsXp, hate Vista, like 7 and hate 8. Microsoft seems to be dropping a turd every other OS when it comes to desktops.